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159The Promise of Manumission: Appropriations and Responses to the Notion of Emancipation in the Caribbean and South America in the First Half of the Nineteenth CenturyIn Kris F. Sealey & Benjamin P. Davis (eds.), Creolizing Critical Theory: New Voices in Caribbean Philosophy, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 61-81. 2024.In this text, I consider two examples in the history of emancipation and manumission of enslaved, Black populations in the Caribbean and South America in order to theorize a colonial mode of conceiving of freedom at play in the first half of the nineteenth century. This mode is marked by the figure of the promise, enacting a notion of freedom as a constantly deferred, external compensation. Indeed, instead of an immediate decision deeming the practice of enslavement and trade of human beings una…Read more
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194Two Versions of the Mestizo Model: Toward a Theory of Anti-Blackness in Latin American ThoughtJournal of Speculative Philosophy 37 (3): 319-332. 2023.ABSTRACT This article offers the first step in an ongoing project of revisiting the foundations of latinidad and lo latinoamericano by focusing on the exclusions enacted by the history of these concepts and the cultural and political identity that comes with them. In conversation with Susana Nuccetelli and Omar Rivera, the author focuses on two emblematic authors in the history of Latin American philosophy (Simón Bolívar and José de Vasconcelos) that are usually read as offering a novel, liberat…Read more
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170Aesthetic Resistance from the Andes and Beyond: The Possibilities and Limits of Anticolonial SensingResearch in Phenomenology 53 (1): 114-123. 2023.
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137Creolizing Hegel by Michael Monahan (review)Inter-American Journal of Philosophy 12 (1): 40-45. 2021.
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401Resistance and Expanse in Nuestra América: José Martí, with Édouard Glissant and Gloria AnzaldúaDiacritics 46 (2): 12-29. 2018.This essay proposes a new way to read José Martí's idea of "Nuestra América," one that focuses on the mode of the call for unity toward liberation and decoloniality. In particular, I offer the arguments for this Latin American unity that would define a collective form of resistance against our colonial past and present (Europe) and an imperialist future (USA). It can be argued that it is extremely difficult to translate the Cuban author's thought by itself to our contemporary struggles, and that…Read more
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232To ’stay where you are’ as a decolonial gesture: Glissant’s philosophy of Caribbean history in the context of Césaire and FanonIn Jack Webb (ed.), Memory, Migration and (De)colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. 2020.The place of Glissant’s philosophy of decolonisation in relation to Fanon and Césaire has been theorised by some authors, but the emphasis has not been placed on the fact that Glissant refers to both his predecessors as examples of the absence of a link between the two tactics of resistance – un détour [a tactical diversion] and un retour [a return]. For Glissant, both Césaire and Fanon are still diverters and not properly producers of a new reality, of a real Caribbean territory and history. Th…Read more
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245Transversality as Disruption and Connection: On the Possibilities and Limits of Using the Framework of Trauma in Glissant’s Philosophy of Caribbean HistoryPhilosophical Readings 11 (3): 152-162. 2019.What do we mean when we describe the history of the Caribbean as traumatic? Is it possible to use the term ‘trauma’ here in a more technical sense, or should we give it the less strict connotation of an extreme form of an event in which the past no longer stays just in the past and the future never ceases to demand something from the present? In this paper I analyze the image of the abyss, used by Édouard Glissant to evoke poetically one of the beginnings of the Caribbean, as leading to a parado…Read more
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147Protestando contra todo lo que la belleza no es. O ¿por qué es tan bello el mundo?Ideas Y Valores 71 (9). 2022.En este texto reconstruyo una concepción decolonial de la belleza, a partir del pensamiento de Robin Wall Kimmerer y Édouard Glissant, de acuerdo con la cual la belleza constituye una condición del mundo que, no obstante, debemos cuidar. En estos dos pensamientos, provenientes de tradiciones diferentes, la belleza es tanto lo que se ve amenazado por el proyecto colonial occidental, como lo que permite su resistencia decolonial. Reconstruir la belleza del mundo es necesario y, sin embargo, imposi…Read more
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195Antígona: ¿Lugar imposible de Una comunidad?Universitas Philosophica 29 (59): 81-98. 2012.Se pretende mostrar, en primer lugar, cuál es la reinterpretación que Hegel lleva a cabo del Espíritu Verdadero en la comunidad griega, a partir de la situación de Antígona. Luego, se expone cómo esta armonía entre las leyes divina y humana podría llevar dentro la semilla de su fracaso porque, el (lugar del) entierro y la relación entre Polinices y Antígona, se encontrarían por fuera del sistema mismo y lo destruirían, si se hiciesen efectivos. Para esto último, estaríamos frente a un “proceso a…Read more
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190John E. Drabinski, Glissant and the Middle Passage (review)Philosophy Today 65 (2): 425-431. 2020.
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